Prior to this commit, every block comment /* */ required two closing tags for every opening tag in order to terminate the highlighting. Setting and testing for a variable was the culprit, though I'm not certain why, but they appear to just be boilerplate lines from whatever pcwalton based this file upon. I've looked at other officially-distributed vim highlighting files and none seem to do the test that this commit removes, so I'm fairly certain it didn't provide anything vital. And now comment highlighting works!
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